I’ve been nominated by Abdeah from Under the Midnight Sky for the Book Fangirling Blog Award! Thank you so much for the nomination Abdeah! I enjoy spending time reading your posts, and it is always lovely to come by book bloggers from my home town – Cape Town.
The Rules:
- Create a post to accept your award.
- Add the blog award button into your post and put it on the side of your blog as a widget. Visit fangirling for the award button.
- Answer the questions I have below.
- Nominate between 5-10 book bloggers who you think also deserve this award.
- Come up with your own 5 questions for your nominees.
WHAT BOOK DID EVERYONE LIKE AND YOU HATED?
The Fault in our Stars by John Green
I know, I know, this is a firm favourite of so many readers around the world, but I was so disappointed by it. I actually started reading this book before the movie came out and it became all the rage; but I never finished it. Then when I read the write up on the movie, it sounded so familiar, and when I finally realised why it was so familiar I struggled to understand why it was such a big hit. I felt that John Green’s characters were unrealistic and pretentious, so I could not connect with them and it held me back from really enjoying it.
BOOK/S THAT PUT YOU IN A RIDICULOUS READING SLUMP?
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Book Thief is one of my all time favourite books, ever! I adored the writing style, the characters, the setting, the plot – pretty much everything that there is to love about a book, I loved about this one. But after reading it, I fell into a massive reading slump because every other book after seemed meaningless. It took me a while to get over the heartbreak and let it all sink in.
NAME A BOOK YOU WISH MORE PEOPLE KNEW ABOUT
Someone Knows My Name aka The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill
I wrote a review about this book which you can read here. This book actually took me out of the reading slump which I was left with after reading The Book Thief.
NAME A BOOK/S YOU WISH TURNED INTO A MOVIE
Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult
I am sure many bookworms will agree with me when I say that I am not a fan of books being made into movies. A movie takes away so much from a good book, especially if you haven’t read it. But for the sake of this challenge, I will say that I wouldn’t mind Jodi Picoult’s masterpiece, Leaving Time, being made into a movie. It contains everything that in my opinion makes a terrific blockbuster.
FAVORITE BOOKTUBER/S
Blue Eyed Biblio
Unfortunately I don’t have much time to watch YouTube videos, but I have watched some by Blue Eyed Biblio and really enjoyed it. She is so cute, and her book collection is something from out of this world!
I hereby nominate these fellow book bloggers to completed this challenge:
Poppie Tee
Barefoot Meds
Books and Messy Buns
Page by Paige
Twins Turning Pages
And anyone else who would like to complete it too!
And the questions are:
1. What book did everyone like and you hated?
2. A book that put you in a ridiculous reading slump
3. Name a book you wish more people knew about
4. A book whose movie you liked more
5. Your favourite booktuber
I really enjoyed completing this challenge, hope you enjoyed reading it!
– Nihaad
This was such a fun post, I really enjoyed reading it! Thank you so much for the nomination!!!!!! xx
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Aww so happy you enjoyed it!! Looking forward to reading yours 🙂 Xo
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How do you find the time to read so many books masha Allah? I am jealous.
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Most of these books I read when I was on Uni. Sadly now with work I don’t have the time to read as much as I would like! But because I love reading I simply have to carve time out to spend on on a good book 🙂
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Thats awesome. And you are right. You gotta make time for passion 🙂
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This was really lovely to read! I agree with you about Leaving Time, I loved the book and think it would be a great film! xx
Sam // Samantha Betteridge
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So good to know I am not alone on that one 🙂 thanks for reading, it was such fun to write!
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Really enjoyed this entry. 🙂
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Thank you 🙂 🙂
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Yay, thanks for nominating me! This looks like such a fun post. 🙂
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Awww my pleasure Paige!! Have fun completing it, I sure did 🙂
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Lovely Post. Enjoyed reading it. Thank you for nomination. My post might be up soon depending on if exams doesn’t get me under first.
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Thanks hun, and all the best with exams! Try not to let ot get you down (or TOO down)
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I am yet to read anything by John Green… -_-
Glad you enjoyed this tag! 🙂
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Oh wow!! I thought everyone read something by JG! I don’t particularly like his style of writing, but everyone else seems to enjoy it.
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I’ve seen the movies… In fact I watched Paper Towns on Sunday and was rather disappointed. 😦
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In my opinion the movies were better than the books – however, I was disappointed with Paper Towns too!
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John Green really seems to divide opinions!
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